Accessibility is much worse in GNOME apps that have switched to GTK4

[Jeremy Bícha]

Test Case
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From Ubuntu 23.04
Open the Settings app (gnome-control-center)
In the left sidebar, click Accessibility
Click Seeing. Turn on Screen Reader
Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate the list of other Seeing options.

What Happens
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Only the first item in each list is read. (In this case, just High Contrast and Screen Reader but not items like Reduce Animation.)

Other Info
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There are several other issues with GTK4 apps. For instance, Epiphany has switched to GTK4 with the GNOME 44 release. The webview is now no longer accessible.

Workaround
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It is recommended that people who depend on the Screen Reader use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS until these issues are fixed.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

This bug was fixed in the package libadwaita-1 - 1.3.3-1ubuntu1

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libadwaita-1 (1.3.3-1ubuntu1) mantic; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * Merge with Debian. Remaining changes:
    - debian/patches: Support yaru accent colors using adwaita theming
  * debian/patches: refresh
  * debian/patches: Reuse GSettings implementation for yaru accents
    (LP: #2013126)

  [ Grigorii Khvatskii ]
  * debian/patches: Always init gsettings and legacy settings backends
    (LP: #2013126)

libadwaita-1 (1.3.3-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #2023411)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Jun 2023 21:29:44 +0200

As part of:
 * a11y: Fix AdwEntryRow accessibility, again (LP: #2015760)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libadwaita-1 into lunar-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libadwaita-1/1.3.3-0ubuntu0.23.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-lunar to verification-done-lunar. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-lunar. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Mike Adams (mikethebos)]

i tested libadwaita-1/1.3.3-0ubuntu0.23.04.1. Enabling Screen Reader now allows up/down arrow keys for reading other items in a list, i.e. Reduce Animation and Large Text. At the end of a list, pressing down jumps to the list containing Screen Reader.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libadwaita-1 - 1.3.3-0ubuntu0.23.04.1

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libadwaita-1 (1.3.3-0ubuntu0.23.04.1) lunar; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * New upstream release (LP: #2023411):
    - tab: Add a default handler to extra-drag-value
    - Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
    - carousel: Fix scrolling to a recently inserted item
    - style-manager: Fix get_for_display annotation
    - doc: Drop --add-include-path
    - Update Slovak translation
  * debian/control: Update vcs references to ubuntu/lunar branch
  * debian/patches: Reuse GSettings implementation for yaru accents
    (LP: #2013126)

  [ Grigorii Khvatskii ]
  * debian/patches: Always init gsettings and legacy settings backends
    (LP: #2013126)

  [ Lukáš Tyrychtr ]
  * a11y: Fix AdwEntryRow accessibility, again (LP: #2015760)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:27:11 +0200

[Robie Basak (racb)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for libadwaita-1 has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.